Pursuing Alternative Forms of Energy
Record high prices at American gas pumps and continued trouble-brewing in the Middle East, Nigeria, and other areas of importance to the oil-driven economy have made it clear to Americans that we are
March 5, 2010 / Earth, disasters
Earthquakes explained
Earthquakes occur when two tectonic plates move suddenly one against each other. The rocks breaks underground at hypocenter and the earth shakes. Those waves spread to epicenter, point on the Earth su
Geothermal Power as Alternative Energy
We should be doing everything possible to develop geothermal energy technologies. This is a largely untapped area of tremendous alternative energy potential, as it simply taps the energy being natural
February 18, 2010 / energy
What is alternative energy
There is a lot of energy that we can harness if we only seek to research and develop the technologies needed to do so. We can get away from the fossil fuels and the old electrical grids by turning to
February 18, 2010 / space
Space, the final frontier
While it was just a TV show, that little speech at the beginning of the original Star Trek show really did do a good job of capturing our feelings about space. It is those feelings that drive our
February 18, 2010 / energy
Developing nuclear power as alternative energy
Many researchers believe that harnessing the power of the atom in fission reactions is the most significant alternative energy resource that we have, for the fact of the immense power that it can gene
February 18, 2010 / energy
Solar energy collecting as an alternative energy source
Photovoltaic cells—those black squares an array of which comprises a solar panel -are getting more efficient, and gradually less expensive, all the time, thanks to ever-better designs which all them
February 15, 2010 / global warming, ice age
Ice Age cycles
Earth has experienced more than 20 ice age cycles during the past 2 million years. The changing climates of the ice ages changed the last episode of human evolution. Always changing shorelines modifie
February 15, 2010 / space
Private rockets take off
Last jully, the private space industry started it's own journey. Falcon 1 (on the picture), a rocket developed by SpaceX, private company delivered a Malaysian satellite into orbit. That was rocket'
February 14, 2010 / Earth, disasters
Tambora – biggest eruption recorded
An island in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago, year 1815. - one of the biggest volcanic eruption in human history. Volcano named Tambora erupted that day. Eruption was 10 times bigger than
February 13, 2010 / energy, global warming
Croatian scientist warns ice age could start in 5 years
A leading scientist has revealed that Europe could be just five years away from the start of a new Ice Age. While climate change campaigners say global warming is the planet's biggest danger, reno
February 12, 2010 / energy
Nuclear drought
The Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario doesn’t sell a watt of electricity. But when it sprang a leak and shut down this spring, it threw a multibillion-dollar industry into crisis. Before it br
